Shiite Muslim worshippers celebrate the end of
Ashura by pounding their hands on their chests and heads at the Kademiya Shrine
on the outskirts of Baghdad, Friday, April 11, 2003. This is the first time since
Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq that they can openly celebrate the holiday.
The holiday of Ashura is when Shiites remember the death in 680 A.D. of Imam Hussein,
a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, the event that led to the split in Islam between
Shiites and Sunni Muslims.
Photograph by Jerome Delay |
